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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

RE: defcon.social/@Wednesday/1173733858… I ask a computer questions because I want the right answer. Tell me again how this works with AI? And “most of the time” is NOT acceptable. For most of the time, I can just ask a human.

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I'm re-reading Anathem by Neal Stephenson (2008), and hit this fairly prescient passage. "Crap" (well-written but subtly false information) deliberately inserted by into the "reticulum" (Internet), with the goal of then being able to sell services to filter […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Screenshot of a few paragraphs of Anathem, where the characters discuss disinformation campaigns on the internet powered by "Artificial Inanity" programs.

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Amazon is haggling now? I bought a pair of Thread/Matter controlled plugs, discovered I can't get them to work in Home Assistant, and went to return them. I'm 90% through the return process, and amazon makes this counter offer.

Dialog box from Amazon offering a $17 refund for a $74 product, letting me keep the product. (Essentially, adding a discount to my original purchase?)

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robinhouston @robinhouston.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

For my birthday, my brother-in-law gave me a 4992-digit hex number that, when used as a seed for Python’s random number generator, makes it so that printing a sequence of “random” ASCII characters actually prints a birthday greeting. I find it rather amazing that this is possible! This is the […]

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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

TIL a recent? Zed update shows you the JSON path to the item you have the cursor at.

The image is a screenshot of a JSON data file being viewed in a code editor.

At the top, a breadcrumb navigation path is visible: `fuel.json > results > result > data > dsr > DS > PH > DM0 > X > M0`.

The JSON content contains technical data, including:

* An **Id**: `"F570D012-997E-4923-B2AA-E1FC85DB993E"`
* A **Start date**: `"2026-09-23T07:11:15"`
* Fuel categories: **"Kerosene"** and **"Propane"**.
* A series of data entries containing timestamps labeled as **"G0"** and numerical values labeled as **"M0"** (e.g., 2.63, 3.24, 2.73, 3.12).

The text is presented in a dark-themed editor with syntax highlighting in various colors like orange, green, and blue. Some lines of the JSON are truncated or wrapped.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter.”

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@vOxium
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I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company.
Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code.
Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow?

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Jan Schaumann @jschauma.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

I wasn't even going to post it here, because it's just a rant that felt good to jot down, but since it's now been on the hackernews front page and shared elsewhere, it looks like it touched a nerve: (Read the comments at your own risk. There's brain worms there, too.) […]

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

And now we know the origin story of Miracle Max’s wife (not a witch!), Valerie.

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Who do I know who's going to JawnCon next month? I'd love to meet fedi-folks in real life, even if it's just to say hi. I feel like I've become disconnected from the community (and from the industry as a whole), and would love some time to chat about...<gestures to everything>.

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

You know the way that things go When what you fight for starts to fall And in that fuzzy picture The writing stands out on the wall So clearly on the wall #lotd

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

About to get on a phone visit with healthcare. This was an odd note to see: "Please note that during your telephone visit, you need to be physically in DC, Maryland, or Virginia in order to have a telephone visit with this provider and should not be driving during the visit." Now I almost wish […]

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

This just in: Unshelled pistachios are a pain in the ass.

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

This collective LLM delusion is completely baffling to me. People are talking like truth, correctness, precision, performance, security… none of it matters anymore. Generating a lie is «good enough». Wtf is wrong with people? If correctness doesn’t matter, why would I pay you? A wrong answer is free

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

“I hate the kerning on this font!” My daughter, as an aside while showing us some notes from her geology class on volcanoes.

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Welcome to the machine. What did you dream? It's alright, we told you what to dream! #lotd

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Saw someone post an unsourced image with "the Great Lakes' real names", so just a reminder that there are lots of Indigenous languages and the many different nations have called them different things at different times. Also, in general but especially, as I […] [Original post on flipping.rocks]

A map of the Great Lakes (Nayaano-nibiimaang Gichigamiin) prepared by Charles Lippert and Jordan Engel. It is oriented with east (Waabang) at the top as per the medicine wheel compass rose in the lower right corner. The lakes are Niigani-gichigami (Leading Sea; Lake Ontario); Waabishkiigoo-gichigami (Neutral’s Sea; Lake Erie); Waaseyaagami-wiikwed (Shining Waters Bay; Georgian Bay); Naadowewi-gichigami (Iroquois' Sea; Lake Huron); Anishinaabewi-gichigami (Anishinaabe's Sea; Lake Superior); Ininwewi-gichigami (Illinois' Sea; Lake Michigan). There are many, many other place-names on the map; see the linked blog post for names and translations.

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Jonathan O'Callaghan @astrojonny.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Excited about the Roman space telescope launch? Why not read how it all began in my exhaustive feature for Scientific American tracing back its origins as a spy satellite. Super fun, super interesting, super telescope. www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

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NASA’s new dark energy telescope has a wild backstory

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will soon launch to unravel the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

TFW you're doing a great job ignoring anything work-related while on vacation, then someone posts something about AI slop...

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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

I want a Firefox extension that knows how to replace every single "N months ago" label with the actual exact timestamp (using patterns for how the data is hidden in tooltips, click-to-expand, etc.). That shit is SO unhelpful. Like if I'm looking back at git history, I don't care that a change […]

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

@caseyliss I was thinking about your need for a word to describe a car headhunter (research, not negotiation) while driving and listening. Blurted out “concierge!” and was proud of finding a good answer. Then I thought … CARcierge. Hope this helps. :)

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Living dangerously - about to totally flaunt the “30 minute rule” between eating and getting into the pool. Not like I’m going to do much more than float around anyway.

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Today’s stupid complaint: professional news link postings where the text of the toot is the same as the card headline is the same as the card preview text. I just read the same 12 words three times and I STILL don’t know if I want to read the linked article. I’d bet if there were alt text on the […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 15/08/2026

I don't really have a "use case" for this application, I just think it's kind of neat www.mothersruin.com/software/Archae…

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Archaeology — A Tool For Digging Into Binary Files on macOS

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

@siracusa SwitchGlass question: Mostly, I have all my "dashboard" apps (mail, Ivory, Todoist, Discord, Slack, etc.) all in the same display space, each in different Stage Manager groupings. If I'm already on the right space, Switchglass opens the app fine (restoring the appropriate Stage […]

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

IMAX! (Dual laser, but largest screen in Northern Virginia)

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

@caseyliss @atpfm I'm a little late for the reference, but this seemed appropriate to your car packing discussion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpVXpCNFOSg

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Possibly the first con / booth swag I ever received. Must’ve been like 1988 or so? I think it was some kind of FidoNet conference. From System Enhancement Associates, creators of the ARC file archive format. @tomjennings

A pull apart bottle opener and corkscrew.

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Current status: literally sitting in the driveway waiting for a severe thunderstorm storm, just because. (Been feeling down, and this is the most excitement I’ve had in days). (Yes, I’ll go inside before the lightning gets bad)

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 01/08/2026

👀 "This is our very Canadian apology: sorry you stepped on our toes. The attack didn’t exploit Tailscale, and Tailscale didn’t cause the compromise. But, we didn't stop it. Next time, we will."

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Royce Williams @tychotithonus.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

Happy Sysadmin Day, to the folks who were SRE before SRE was a thing. And this is my favorite inspirational sysadmin quote, from The Practice of System and Network Administration by Limoncelli, Chalup, and Hogan: > **A Concise Definition** > > A facility had several researchers from a variety […]

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

"Worse on Purpose" is great. It focuses on consumer products, and their relentless decline in quality as brands get absorbed by enshittification-happy financial manipulators. But the site also tells you who's NOT wrecking things -- who you can still trust. www.worseonpurpose.com (I'm […]

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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

The FCC just declared war on solar projects in America (direct PDF) docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DA-… Despite testing by other agencies revealing no evidence of the claim, the FCC asserts their fear of remote connectivity with supply chain dependency creates a kill-switch […]

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@fesshole/116957223… NeXTSTEP included a Webster Dictionary app as a standard utility. If a user had a picture of themselves tied to their login account, the app would display it in the definition of “gullible.” As in, “you’re so gullible, if you look up the […]

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David Schuetz @darthnull.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@taosecurity/11695… Great song (great album!) Also, I remember from the 50th (OMG, was that...SEVEN years ago already?) that this site was awesome: apolloinrealtime.org/11 "real time" transcripts, video, photos, mission control audio, for the […]

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

American exceptionalism is a hell of a drug and psychosis. Try being an immigrant American living somewhere with social medical and telling people it’s actually good and less expensive. The bots and naysayers come screaming out of the woodwork to try to make excuses for why it’s actchully terrible.

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

Proposal... The US should overhaul the K-12 public school system to make it K-10 and give everyone 4 years of free tuition at local community colleges after 10th. Liberate the 16 year olds to have more control over their educational path, give them time to try out different topics for a […]

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Michael Jessopp @ppossej.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

I have just been advised by a recruiter to strip out anything from my CV/profile that hints that I'm over 50 - it seems that AI screening tools are filtering out older candidates, even when it's illegal in certain jurisdictions. To anyone who continues to claim that AI is un-biased - fuck you - […]

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